ETSISTF 402 - Standardizing the pan-European Infrastructure for Registered Electronic Mail and e-Delivery

摘要

This paper outlines the main achievements of the ETSI STF-402 in the area of Registered Electronic Mail (REM henceforth), related to the provision of means for achieving interoperability between solutions that make use of S/MIME for structuring messages and SMTP as transport and some identified solutions using SOAP on HTTP respectively for the same purposes.The paper provides details of 2 new technical specifications defining means for allowing exchange of messages between REM providers using SMIME on SMTP and systems that are compliant with Universal Postal Union (UPU henceforth) S52-1 specifications, as well as with implementations of Business Document Exchange Network (BUSDOX henceforth). It also provides details of a binding profile specifying how providers may exchange REM Messages and evidence as XML messages within SOAP structures transported over HTTP. SPOCS LSP and STF-402 have very closely cooperated in its generation, following a model that both entities firmly believe could be exportable in the future within the EU context for speeding up the production of EU standards tuned to actual needs of the market. The paper also provides hints on a report documenting test suites for supporting REM interoperability tests and the new version of ETSI TS 102 640 on REM.